This document describes the steps to setup a chroot jail for building Ubuntu packages using pbuilder. It is recommended for Ubuntu maintainers or anyone interested in building packages using Ubuntu.
You can build packages without pbuilder but you must already have all the build dependencies of the package that you are building installed on your running system.
The following assume you want to install breezy. If you need a hoary or dapper chroot, then exchange breezy with the appropriate distribtion.